Call it a mother-in-law suite, a granny flat, a guest house, a backyard office, an accessory dwelling unit, or just your own sweet compact home. Whichever name you choose for it, there’s no denying ...

UK-based design studio Koto has recently joined forces with American home-builders Abodu to create a prefabricated tiny house that can be installed onsite in two weeks. Dubbed Koto X Abodu, the 495-sq ...

Modular and panelized construction is trending up for residential and commercial builds. We talked with three companies seeing increased demand for their products and services. Factory prefab can ...

Think of it: a triple-decker, from a pile of lumber, pipes, wires, and windows on a factory floor to a finished home in a ...

San Francisco startup Cosmic is making ADUs that generate enough energy to power itself and the main home. Cosmic has two models: a studio starting at $190,000 and a one-bedroom starting at $370,000.

To cope with rising sea levels, architects in Indonesia designed the Drop Pod, a stylish modular structure that is “quick to ...

If off-grid homes and shipping container houses interest you, you probably heard of Dvele. Inhabitat covered the company before, detailing its prefab projects and DveleIQ software. But there’s more to ...

The cost to build a modular home is between $180,000 to $360,000, with a national average cost of $270,000. Factors that affect the total cost of a modular home ...

Jeffrey Dowell and Barbara Poushinsky’s home in the rural community of Rideau Ferry, Ont., about an hour outside Ottawa, has a barn-style gable roof and chipper red siding. Inside, the high ceiling, ...

The newly created Build Canada Homes agency will oversee plans to build 4,000 homes on six federally owned sites, as part of ...

Keepers of the Circle, operated by the Temiskaming Native Women’s Support Group, is building a 24,000-square-foot factory in ...